I have Jerboa installed also and links open in that from the web browser, I’d rather they opened in Liftoff since it’s the one I seem to be using most.

  • @JaxiiRuff@pawb.social
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    I recently switched away from Jerboa to this and dont mind the option being disabled/not used. There are so many instances being used right now that it would be impossible to keep up I feel.

    Liftoff actually does an incredible job over Jerboa with the links to other communities working way better and intuitive search methods that I feel like I will not be coming from search engine results for some time until the more prominent instances are more well known and indexed.

    • db2OP
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      I know little about how apks work, but it would be pretty nice if the list could be updated in-app without updating the app itself. Then as you implied we’d just need a list of known instances.

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        I asked about this before and it seems the list of urls is fixed and can’t be changed in-app. Jerboa just has a huge list of active instances pulled from wherever. Liftoff should just do that.

          • 0x0
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            111 months ago

            Very cool. Glad you got it sorted!

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    I don’t know if it would help here, but we do hook into the deep-linking functionality if you use the “liftoff” protocol, so rewriting a link such as https://lemmy.world/post/1506733 to be liftoff://lemmy.world/post/1506733 would open it in Liftoff!

    This prompted me to write a little Shortcuts script to add to my share sheet for iOS now. Is there something similar that could be done on Android?

    • Drew Belloc
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      111 months ago

      I’ve used that with other apps in android, but liftoff don’t seen to work

      • @mykl@lemmy.worldM
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        111 months ago

        liftoff://lemmy.world/post/1506733

        Are you saying that opening that URL in your browser doesn’t open it in Liftoff?

        • Drew Belloc
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          211 months ago

          Yes, just give me a blank screen on my browser, i tried with different instances and none of them worked, not even that link.

          • @mykl@lemmy.worldM
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            111 months ago

            Okay, could you raise that as an issue in GitHub so our Android devs can see it? Sounds like you’ve done some good testing there.

            • Drew Belloc
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              211 months ago

              No problem, i will do that once i’m home, i will also install a chromium based browser to test, i used fennec (firefox based) to test before